tribulation
/ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
(A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them.
Example Sentences
- "What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that tribulation to strengthen him was far better for him, than to take that tribulation from him?"
- "Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer"
- "And mark me, brother! not in the proudest days of the mitred Abbey, was a Superior ever chosen, whom his office shall so much honour, as he shall be honoured, who now takes it upon him in these days of tribulation."
- "Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night."
- "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war."
- "Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving — by outliving their plagues and tribulations."
Etymology
From Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin trībulātiō (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from Latin tribulāre (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from trībulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from terēre (“to rub”); see trite.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *terh₁-, tribulation, tribulacion, tribulatio, tribulare
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌtɹɪbjəˈleɪ̯ʃən/
- British English: /ˌtɹɪbjʊˈleɪ̯ʃən/